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Part 7

In January 1986, we in Clearwater got a call from Flag to
come to a vital briefing that night in the auditorium. I think
it was 24th or thereabouts.

The auditorium was packed. David Miscavige came on stage,
with other people and they announced that L. Ron Hubbard had
"finished his research and that his human body was holding him
back so he had dropped it and gone on to the next planet to be
cleared. We were in total shock. They went on to say, taking
turns at giving information (Pat and Annie Broeker, Earl Cooley
and David Miscavige) that he had consulted with him (Pat) prior
to dropping his body and asked if Scientologists would grieve at
his passing. Pat had replied yes. Apparently Hubbard had
instructed him to tell people not to grieve and to focus on the
job ahead, and to use his legacy of tech to save mankind.

Earl Cooley, one of a small army of Scientology attorneys at
the time but one who was particularly close to top management,
came up to the microphone and told us essentially that Ron's
body was still perfectly functional when he left it and that his
instructions were to have a burial at sea (ashes) and that that
had been done swiftly so there was no grave to visit or tomb to
flock to. We were then distracted from the news by talk about
Ron's ranch, his OT research and content designed to take
attention off the fact that we had lost "Source". Ron had been
regarded as the "God" of Scientology, and now he was gone. Pat
Broeker came out with a slide projected on a big screen that was
a set of 33 triple numbers with commas separating them. He said
that this was a date from OT10 and that it was an enormous
breakthrough in the tech of auditing. One million has just 2
commas; this one had 32. The number was unimaginable. He also
said Ron had defined music as "something that softens the impact
of time on OTs". The data was fascinating but bewildering.
No-one there, as far as I could see, had really moved past the
point of Ron being dead and gone, cremated, thrown away and
disappeared, all so soon.

We had to go back home, call all our Scientology friends, no
matter what time of day or night it was in Europe, or anywhere
else, and tell them the version of the news we had just heard
before anyone would read about it in the newspapers next day. I
called several friends overseas and got them to relay the
message immediately. In this way the newspaper reports were
softened on the Scientologists all over the world. Two days
later the Challenger blew up and
Hubbard's death left the main
pages of the news media.

I had been shocked to the point of wanting to join the Sea
Org as I wanted to help mankind so much. That is just part of
who I am. I signed up and got a preparation program to pay off
debts (I had accumulated debt to get recent auditing at Flag).
To cut a long story very short I never entered the Sea Org as
the more I tried to pay off debt the worse business went. (Thank
God for that, in retrospect!)

I continued my art, auditing on OT7 and socializing with
Scientologists in Clearwater until 1986, later in the year and
then moved to San Francisco area to try to get more art clients.
I was off OT7 for a while after a big upset that I had dropped
my bid to join the Sea Org and had annoyed several people
because of it. It was just not meant to be and I knew it. I
lived in Palo Alto and another S.F. Bay area City, got some
locals into Scientology and generally enjoyed the area very
much. I was not able to get an immigration visa or residency so
I left the USA in 1988 to return to Paris.

With having lived in so many places, toured with my art to so
many cities I had literally hundreds of Scientology friends,
clients and associates in many countries. I still have all their
names and addresses. I continued to audit on OT7 in Paris in
1988 and 1989. I also went to the Celebrity Centre, where the
Rosenbergs had been reinstated a few years earlier after the
initial finance police purges were exhausted and finance police
dissolved.

In 1989 I had started an idea of helping the Art world with
some special writings of my own, from my own experience and
inspirations as a professional artist. It was a freeing and
uplifting set of ideas that I started to write as articles for
members of my proposed club/association/movement, whatever you
may want to call it. It was originally going to be titled
"Universal Renaissance". I was still working on this (and still
gay despite all the efforts I had made) when I felt I had come
to the completion of OT7. I went to Flag, got checked out on all
that was going on, and attested to "NEW OT7 COMPLETION" in
December 1989.

After going through more "eligibility programs", ethics
handlings (on being still a bit gay, lol)... I eventually went
from Flag to the Freewinds to do "NEW OT8"!! Wow, finally!
Well, not so fast! When I arrived there were still more
"eligibility programs" to do, folders to be checked with close
scrutiny and baby steps to please the "Ethics Officer", now
called a "Master -at-arms" because we were on a ship. It was
rather pleasant being on a smart cruise ship for a while, but
when 3 weeks had gone by and I was still not on OT8 I protested
vehemently. Others had arrived a long time after me and had
sailed straight onto OT8, so why not me?? Well, the folders had
to be checked and re-checked and, frankly the auditing folders
became far more important than me. I was disappointed to see the
folders getting all the attention and me very little. It was
really as if I had to adapt myself to ensure the folders were
ready to go on to OT8 and not the other way round.

I eventually got an "Invitation" to do NEW OT8 in January
1990.

WHAT I SAW, WHAT I LEARNED ON VARIOUS POINTS ABOVE WITH
HINDSIGHT:

1. Ron had died under extremely suspicious circumstances.
There is a lot of internet factual record of that so I will just
be brief on that here. It seems that he died a dishevelled and
unkempt old guy with psych drugs in his system (Vistaril) per
the coroners report. Also, his Will had been significantly
changed THE DAY BEFORE HE SUPPOSEDLY DIED. All photos taken of
his body were intentionally destroyed. The cremation had taken
place very fast, almost weirdly fast. There were many many
really important questions not given answers but swept under the
rug, so to speak. It looks like like a massive cover-up.

2.Eligibilty programs are used to elicit extra contribution
in effort, support and monies from the Scientology "public". I
had to prove I was contributing to the expansion of Scientology,
and not being an enemy or a non-contributor, to get "invited"
onto the secret OT levels.

3. OT7 took me 7 years to complete, and I audited well over
1000 hours (solo) on it, all having to do with removing the
excess of low spirits (lol) or "body thetans" (also known on the
web as "space cooties, dead space aliens and Xenu entities) per
the materials that have been posted on the internet for free,
but for which I had to pay tens of thousands of dollars.

4. I was a slave to my folders, whose condition was,
apparently, far more important than mine. This was quite
humiliating in actual practice, though it may seem funny to some
who have not experienced that. If the folders weren't right I
had to be changed to make them right. Yikes. Hey maybe my
paperwork went O.T. instead of me?? ; )